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conflict & communication online, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2008 www.cco.regener-online.de ISSN 1618-0747 Konflikt, Kommunikation und Intergruppenbeziehungen II Conflict, Communication and Intergroup Relations II Oddgeir Tveiten Kontakt-Erziehung, alte und neue Medien: Reflexionen über eine Friedensinitiative in Norwegen Contact education, old and new media: Reflections on a peace-building initiative in Norway Wilhelm Kempf Die Wirkung politischer Nachrichten auf die Einschätzung des israelisch- palästinensischen Konfliktes seitens deutscher Studenten The impact of political news on German students' assessments of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Stig Arne Nohrstedt & Rune Ottosen Kriegsjournalismus in der Bedrohungsgesellschaft: Friedensjournalismus als Strategie zu Herausforderung der gelenkten Kultur der Angst? War journalism in the threat Society: Peace journalism as a strategy for challenging the mediated culture of fear? Wassilios Baros Bildung und Überprüfung von Hypothesen in der Migrationsforschung Construction and testing of hypotheses in migration research conflict & communication online, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2008 www.cco.regener-online.de ISSN 1618-0747 Oddgeir Tveiten Kontakt-Erziehung, alte und neue Medien: Reflexionen über eine Friedensinitiative in Norwegen 2001 wurde in Südnorwegen eine Friedensorganisation gegründet, die ein regionales Gestapo-Hauptquartier aus dem 2. Weltkrieg in einen gemeinnützigen Veranstaltungsort umwandelte, dessen Vision es war, sich zu einem national anerkannten Friedenserziehungsforum zu entwickeln. In den ersten beiden Jahren war das Zentrum von Bankrott und geringer Anerkennung bedroht. Dann setzte sich aber doch die angestrebte Vision durch - Erzbischof Desmond Tutu aus Südafrika kam zweimal zu Besuch, und es wurde eine Joint Venture Vereinbarung mit dem von der UNESCO anerkannten Robben-Island-Heritage Museum in Cape Town unterzeichnet. Weitere Kooperationsvereinbarungen folgten. Aber was hatte diese Vision an sich, das plötzlich die Aufmerksamkeit von in der Friedensarbeit engagierten Individuen und Organisationen auf sich zog? Können wir aus der Geschichte des Zentrums etwas über Friedenserziehung als eine Art narrativer Strategie lernen? Volltext (in Englisch) Zum Autor: Oddgeir Tveiten ist Professor für politische Kommunikation an der Universität von Adger in Südnorwegen. Er hat an der Schule für Journalismus und Massenkommunikation der Universität von Minnesota promoviert und ist derzeit Gastdozent am Department of Communication an der Stanford University, wo er an einem Buch über globalen Journalismus arbeitet. Seine neueste Veröffentlichung ist ein Buch in norwegischer Sprache über politische Kommunikation, das im November 2008 erscheinen wird. eMail: [email protected] conflict & communication online, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2008 www.cco.regener-online.de ISSN 1618-0747 Oddgeir Tveiten Contact education, old and new media: Reflections on a peace-building initiative in Norway In 2001, a peace foundation was set up in Southern Norway, where a regional WW II Gestapo headquarters became a non-profit venue with a vision of becoming a nationally recognized peace education center. The first two years saw regular threats of bankruptcy and little recognition. Then, the vision took hold Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa came to visit twice, and a joint venture agreement was signed with the UNESCO-listed Robben Island Heritage Museum in Cape Town. Several other alliances were forged. But what was it about this vision that suddenly caught the attention of individuals and organizations engaged in peace work? Can we learn something from the history of the center about peace education as a kind of narrative strategy? full text (in English) On the author: Oddgeir Tveiten is Associate Professor of Political Communication at the University of Agder in Southern Norway. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Department of Communication, Stanford University, where he is writing a book on global journalism. His most recent book, published in Norwegian, deals with political communication and is scheduled to appear in November 2008. eMail: [email protected] conflict & communication online, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2008 www.cco.regener-online.de ISSN 1618-0747 Oddgeir Tveiten Contact education, old and new media: Reflections on a peace-building initiative in Norway Kurzfassung: 2001 wurde in Südnorwegen eine Friedensorganisation gegründet, die ein regionales Gestapo-Hauptquartier aus dem 2. Welt- krieg in einen gemeinnützigen Veranstaltungsort umwandelte, dessen Vision es war, sich zu einem national anerkannten Friedenserzie- hungsforum zu entwickeln. In den ersten beiden Jahren war das Zentrum von Bankrott und geringer Anerkennung bedroht. Dann setzte sich aber doch die angestrebte Vision durch - Erzbischof Desmond Tutu aus Südafrika kam zweimal zu Besuch, und es wurde eine Joint Venture Vereinbarung mit dem von der UNESCO anerkannten Robben-Island-Heritage Museum in Cape Town unterzeichnet. Weitere Ko- operationsvereinbarungen folgten. Aber was hatte diese Vision an sich, das plötzlich die Aufmerksamkeit von in der Friedensarbeit enga- gierten Individuen und Organisationen auf sich zog? Können wir aus der Geschichte des Zentrums etwas über Friedenserziehung als eine Art narrativer Strategie lernen? Abstract: In 2001, a peace foundation was set up in Southern Norway, where a regional WW II Gestapo headquarters became a non-profit venue with a vision of becoming a nationally recognized peace education center. The first two years saw regular threats of bankruptcy and little recognition. Then, the vision took hold - Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa came to visit twice, and a joint venture agree- ment was signed with the UNESCO-listed Robben Island Heritage Museum in Cape Town. Several other alliances were forged. But what was it about this vision that suddenly caught the attention of individuals and organizations engaged in peace work? Can we learn some- thing from the history of the center about peace education as a kind of narrative strategy? 2008 by verlag irena regener berlin 1 Oddgeir Tveiten conflict & communication online, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2008 Contact education, old and new media: Reflections on a peace-building initiative in Norway Introduction Each year, I take my BA and MA students in political communication to a place called Stiftelsen Arkivet, in the city of Kris- tiansand in Southern Norway. The venue is probably not familiar to readers of this article, but the questions we discuss there are: how does one approach conflict history, war memories and historical knowledge of human rights atrocities with the aim of learning things of value and salience for understanding contemporary wars and conflicts in the world? What place does collective war memorization have in society – and what do war memories contribute to our basic understanding of conflict escalation and reduction? How might we apply insights from the broad range of the social sciences and the hu- manities in a constructive panorama of contemporary peace education to transform conflicts from violent to non-violent alternatives? Stiftelsen Arkivet (The Archives Foundation) is a newly established peace documentation center with an already consoli- dated name recognition in Norway, to some extent in the Nordic countries, and increasingly also internationally.1 It began with modest ambitions in 2001, struggling continually against bankruptcy. In the mid-1990s it appeared that the Norwegian government intended to move the regional division of the governmental archives system to a new venue, while also in- tending to sell the building that had housed them until then.2 The similar names should not be confused: the state’s archival foundation is a government institution responsible for all governmental documents, whereas Stiftelsen Arkivet is an NGO. A group of individuals got together to try to secure a different fate for the building, as it has a strong historical identity. During the German occupation of Norway 1940-45, the house served as the regional headquarters for the Geheime Staat- spolizei – the Gestapo. It was locally known during the occupation as the "House of Terror." And now, in 1999, the initiative finally succeeded: the government abandoned plans for a sale and donated the house to the museum advocates, on the condition that they use it for peace-building purposes. Within 12 months, the doors of the new Arkivet were opened to the public. Authentic artifacts from the war years had been returned after decades in private and public possession. Returned to their original positions, these artifacts were now presented in the museum by retired and unpaid voluntary guides. The whole building had been restored and renovated. What opened in 2001 was a volunteer-supported war museum and peace documentation center with a vision that sometime in the future it could become a professional, nationally recognized peace education center.3 For the first two years, the foundation was often in danger of bankruptcy and received little recognition. Then, the vision took hold – Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa came to visit twice, and exchange programs were developed with the Desmond Tutu Peace Center, as well as with the UNESCO-listed Robben Island Heritage Museum in Cape Town. Several other cooperative relationships were forged, and a multimedia project gained national tenure for a simple reason: New media technologies were brought to bear on the